Lapso is a sculptural lighting series crafted from sheets of bacterial cellulose, fermented to make each piece unique. Designed by Polybion™ with Natural Urbano, it highlights biofabrication, featuring translucent, textured surfaces illuminated to reveal layered gradients. Available in natural or dyed versions, it emphasises biological origins and aesthetic innovation.
Lapso – Celium
Sept 21, 2025
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Lapso is a sculptural lighting series that grows rather than is manufactured. Conceived by Polybion™ with Natural Urbano, each piece is crafted from five sheets of bacterial cellulose—marking the first interior use of Celium™. Created through fermentation, these sheets develop a distinctive tone, density, and ruffled texture, ensuring that no two lamps are identical. When illuminated, the translucent surface reveals layered gradients and shifting opacity; when unlit, it highlights the material's presence and silhouette.
Available in Natural (warm, untreated) and Humo (a darker, dyed version), Lapso celebrates its biological origins while broadening aesthetic possibilities. A removable screen enhances diffusion, increases durability, and enables simple maintenance.
After debuting at the 2025 London Design Festival’s Biofab Fair, this made-to-order lamp signifies Polybion’s entry into the interiors market and champions biofabrication for product design, with worldwide shipping.
Lapso 是一組「培育」而非「製造」的雕塑燈具。由 Polybion™ 與 Natural Urbano 共同打造，每盞燈以五層細菌纖維素手工層疊成形，也是 Celium™ 首次進入室內設計。發酵過程賦予材質微妙的色階、密度與褶皺紋理，使每件作品皆為獨一無二。點亮時，半透明表面呈現層層光影與深淺變化；熄燈後，材質的存在感與輪廓被溫柔凸顯。
系列提供 Natural 原色與 Humo 煙色兩款，延展生物材料的美學可能。可拆卸遮片優化漫射並提升耐用與維護性。
自 2025 年倫敦設計節 Biofab Fair 首發後，Lapso 以訂製方式全球發售，標記生物製造在當代產品設計中的新路徑。
Polybion™
Sebastián Beltrán & Lorena Márquez
Polybion’s design studio operates at the confluence of science and creativity, transforming agro-industrial fruit waste into high-performance biomaterials. Inspired by nature’s cycles, the team combines biotechnologists, material scientists, engineers, and designers to develop the company’s signature product, Celium™, in a process that emphasises both aesthetics and function. Each piece is created through biological growth rather than synthetic assembly — textures, grain, embossing, and colour development are embedded at the cellular level.
Rather than impose a design, the studio creates the conditions for nature to contribute its innate form-making intelligence. The result is materials that exude a refined sense of luxury, yet are inherently unique — each sheet displays subtle differences, like fingerprints. With the design studio central to the production process, Polybion redefines not only material manufacturing but also the very concept of design authorship.
Polybion 的設計工作室位於科學與創意的交會處，將農業工業用水果廢棄物轉化為高性能生物材料。團隊由生物技術專家、材料科學家、工程師及設計師組成，從自然循環中汲取靈感，共同培育公司標誌性產品 Celium™，其流程兼顧美學與功能。每一件作品不是透過合成組裝而成，而是透過生物生長——紋理、表面紋刻、壓花和色彩在細胞層面就已植入。
工作室不是強加設計，而是營造條件，讓自然參與造型。最終呈現的是具有精緻奢華特質的材料，但同時每一片都獨一無二——如同指紋般帶有微妙差異。在設計工作室融入生產流程的核心環節中，Polybion 重塑了不僅是材料製造，更是「設計作者身份」的概念。
Designer: Polybion™ × Natural Urbano
Design team: Sebastián Beltrán, Lorena Márquez
https://www.polybion.bio/
All images by Polybion™ × Natural Urbano
